Dodgy celebrity health and diet claims

Text from www.guardian.co.uk

Have you heard the one about the bracelet with holograms that can improve your strength and flexibility, or help you lose weight? Did you know that sperm was highly nutritious and something to be reabsorbed into the body, particularly before a fight?

For the past 12 months a range of celebrities have endorsed and promoted a whole range of scientifically dubious ideas. Fortunately, for anyone concerned that people might take the celebrity nonsense seriously, scientists and doctors are on hand to dispense some corrective wisdom on the dodgiest of these claims.More

Gluttonous Male Mice Give Diabetes to Daughters

Text from www.wired.com

A prospective dad’s diet may affect the health of his future children, suggests a study of cross-generational nutritional impacts in mice.

Males were fed a high-fat diet, becoming obese and diabetic, then mated with lean, healthy females. At six weeks of age, or the mouse equivalent of puberty, their daughters became glucose-intolerant, a major step toward diabetes.More

Potato or tomato?

A trailer for Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution in the US which is attempting to increase awareness about fatal diseases caused by diet and obesity which are largely caused by the over-consumption of processed foods (instead of fruit and vegetables) and lack of exercise. His TED talk is also worth checking out.